The basic elements of well-being can be grouped into three main categories: exercise, rest and nutrition. The technology provided by Firstbeat focuses on the exercise and rest categories to offer…
Jaakko KotisaariWellness Specialist, Firstbeat
While the Premier League is still going strong, the majority of the European soccer leagues are heading to the winter break during some of the coldest months of the year….
Christoph RottensteinerPh.D., Country Manager DACH, Firstbeat
Tiina Föhr M.Sc. in health sciences/sports medicine, physiotherapist Currently writing her doctoral thesis on the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and work stress with special reference to heart rate variability…
Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment is typically a 3-day measurement during daily life, at work and during leisure time and sleep, with the idea of looking where no one has looked before…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
The 4-week summer holiday is over and I’ve been back at work for a week. Recovered and charged up, but also a bit overwhelmed after spending the week catching up…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
Read also part I: Active Recovery In this post I aim to present some data I have got from conducting measurements with the Bodyguard 2 device during training camp here…
Ida Aidanpää-ImmonenKey Account Manager, Firstbeat
Hello everyone! My name is Ida and I´m a 26-year-old track and field athlete from Jyväskylä, Finland. My main event is 100m hurdles in which I have several medals from…
Ida Aidanpää-ImmonenKey Account Manager, Firstbeat
It’s a sunny and springlike – but yeah, still chilly – Sunday afternoon here in the Nordic latitudes. Sundays are generally seen as days in which we athletes “take it easy”, but for…
My previous travel blog was from an overseas trip, sharing some data about jetlag and other typical travel stressors. More recently, I blogged about the ‘dangers’ of measuring too much and…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat
In previous articles, the effect that good recovery has on performance has been highlighted from a physiological point of view. But what if we look at the situation from a…
CrossFit as a sport has been developed to train all areas of physical condition: strength, speed, endurance and mobility, and it includes elements from for example gymnastics and Olympic weightlifting….
TV, newspapers, books and the internet are full of guidelines and research results about how we should live: how to manage stress, what to eat and drink, how to sleep…
Tiina HoffmanExercise Physiologist & Master Trainer, Firstbeat